Stockholm Must See - Old Town, boat + Vasa Museum 3h small group
Description
Start your journey at the Slottsbacken Obelisk and embark on a guided walking tour through Stockholm's Old Town. Explore the fascinating history of this iconic area while visiting renowned landmarks such as the Royal Palace, Stortorget (the Grand Square), the Nobel Prize Museum, the Old Town Runestone, and the Riddarhuset (House of Nobility). Enhance your experience with a scenic ferry ride to Djurgården Isle, where you'll see Stockholm from the water. Along the way, learn intriguing facts about historic sites like the old Stockholm Naval Base, the Nordic Museum, the Viking Museum, and the Museum of Wrecks. Conclude your tour at the renowned Vasa Museum, where you can skip the line and immerse yourself in the story of the remarkably well-preserved Vasa ship. Your guide will share captivating stories of the ship's tragic demise, history and restoration. Important: For tours starting at 16:00/4 PM, the itinerary is reversed due to Vasa Museum opening hours.
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Itinerary
Meet up for this shared Stockholm must see tour 09.30 at the foot of gustav III Slottsbacken obelisk (if you got at 16.00 start it is at the anchor outside of the vasa museum). Start of the tour with an introduction, the itinerary of the day and the history of the killing of king Gustav III at the Royal Opera connected tot his Obelisk.
The Finnish church of Stockholm
A history of the palace and the monarchy.
Experience and explore Stockholm's main square with your tour guide. Hear the story of the Bloodbath of Stockholm, and enjoy beautiful, 17th C fasades and decorations.
Pass by the Nobel prize museum and hear about Alfred Nobel, and the history of Stortorget itself.
Experience the old town runestone and it's history.
Experience the Ally of Hell and the history of the executioners of Stockholm.
A brief stop to explore the history of Storkyrkan, Stockholm's main church, uncovering stories of life in ancient Stockholm due to recent archeological excavations.
On the "isle of the Nobels" you'll experience stories of monks, death, fires and flames.
The house of knights in Stockholm.
The Iron square, the trade networks and the German part of Old Town.
Walk trough the smallest ally of Stockholm and hear the tragic fate of the one giving the ally it's name.
While waiting of the ferry to Djurgården we'll explore the old harbor and the trade and waterways of Stockholm.
Hear the tales and stories about some of the famous Medieval battles connected to this statue.
After the ferry ride awaits a shorter city walk on Djurgården isle, the former royal hunting grounds and military navy isle transformed into a beautiful park and museum isle.
Vrak and Viking museum are two museums hosted in WWII shreds build to withstand airplane bombs.
Se the beautiful modern runestones at the entrence and hear about the vIking age.
We'll together explore the history and remains of the old naval base of Stockholm moved from here in the 1970:s
Hear the history of the Nordic museum and it's collection of Nordic history since 1800:s whose collects objects connected to Sweden and the Nordic between 1500 until today.
Explore with your tour guide the mighty Vasa ship, a world unique failure sailing aprox. 1200m before it sunk. Today it can be experienced in the Vasa Museum, standing almost 40m long with 98% complete original wood from 17th C.
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Important Information
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
- Operates in all weather conditions, please dress appropriately.
- Minimum 3 people booked to run the tour, if less extra payment possible.
Reviews(41)
Our guide, Emma, was very knowledge and a marvelous storyteller. Brining history to life in her presentation. Very accomodating in every respect.
Emma was an excellent guide. Excellent history. Great pace. Highly recommend. Easy access to the Vasa Museum was worth the tour price.
It was wonderful seeing the square, Old Town, the Royal Palace and the many other things along the way. Also going to the island with all the different museums was awesome. The Vasa Museum is amazing!!! We could have spent hours there. Seeing the ship that had sunk and was brought up years later was breathtaking. And then all of the exhibits of items from the ship that were displayed gave a true insight into things on the ship. The film showing how the ship was found and brought to the surface was fascinating!!! Definitely worth the time. I would definitely recommend a tour guide. Had we not had a tour guide we would have waited probably for hours to get in. The tour guides have a special entrance. Well worth the money!!!! There is also a nice amusement park on the island and many, many places for food and drinks. I highly recommend this tour.
Fantastic tour hosted by very knowledgeable Zana. Was a great way to see a lot in a short time. Good way to find places I wanted to explore in depth. I was very happy they still had the tour even though I was the only participant.
We began our 3-hour tour with a stroll around the Old Town accompanied by interesting tales of Stockholm history and culture narrated by our extremely well-informed guide, Gabriel. He made history come alive with detailed and entertaining stories of “how it used to be.” Our walk was followed by a boat ride to Djurgården where we visited the maritime Vasa Museum to explore the warship of the same name that sank in 1628 on its maiden voyage. Had our schedule not been so tight we might have also visited many other museums including the outdoor museum Skansen, located nearby. This is also where locals frequent the Gröna Lund amusement park. Indeed, upon arrival, as the boat approached our destination we could hear the screams of roller coaster riders experiencing a momentary, but expected, thrill. Whether you visit the Vasa Museum on your own or with a private tour guide (as we did) it is a MUST see. However, I believe the $102.84 per person price tag for a personal tour guide gave us a much more thorough understanding of what happened and why, a truly fascinating look into a brief time in Stockholm’s history. There are a few lessons to be learned here.
This tour gave a nice overview of Stockholms history. Of course, the Vasa museum was a must see and having a guide made it even better. It is a great way to explore and find things you may wish to explore further.
Emma gives an enjoyable tour. Good mix of history and other stories.
Wonderfully informative history walk with a guided (must see on any itinerary) Vasa tour included. Great rain or shine.
Thanka for taking your time to writing this. Happy to read that you liked our tour, you are more than welcome back to Sweden History Tours Stockholm city tours :-)
Peter was absolutely amazing. As a retired historian who worked at the Vasa museum we felt like we had an unparalleled historical tour off Stockholm. He was so polite well prepared with pictures and historical references. the tour also starts before all the tourists are out so it very peaceful. An absolute must we were blown away with this tour.
Peter sent his thanks to you, as do I for this well-written review to read. I am very happy to hear all went well and that the places , and his way of doing the tour was to your liking. Welcome back to Sweden History Tours another time.
Our guide Peter, was fantastic , he knew so much about history of Stockholm & Sweden, about Old Town, and about the Vasa museum and ship. We learned a lot.
